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The former Willink pupil suffered a ruptured spleen in 2009 while training for the Youth Olympic Festival in Australia.

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He added: "My journey has been really up and down.

"I've had a lot of setbacks. It was quite a big setback for me having a five per cent chance of surviving the operation and going into a coma and kind of hearing the doctors around me saying I was going to die, that was really scary for me.